Publishing, Girl Power, and Raising Money Online

My son in law, Ben Aldrich, co founder of SatYuga Studios, thought that I would be interested in Kickstart, an internet-enabled way of raising venture capital, donation by small donation. He linked me to Wollstonecraft, a “pro-math, pro-science, pro-history and pro-literature adventure novel for and about girls, who use their education to solve problems and catch a jewel thief.”

The project does seem to combine everything we love: publishing, entrepreneurship, girl power, the internet, and a fun dollop of steampunk to leaven it all. And Kickstart is an interesting project, especially for women. Women’s projects, we are told, get only 3% of existing venture capital. This entrepreneurial approach to raising money might be a godsend for independent women publishers.